Jinhua Temple, you may not have heard the name, let alone the direction. I have passed by the temple gate many times, and I have plenty of time, so I didn't stop to walk in for a while. From the outside, it is not very inconspicuous and too low-key.
Facing the road, there is only an iron gate and the entrance to the guard's room, which is really not atmospheric;Looking through the red wall, only the gray roof can be faintly seen, and it is difficult to find the dazzling glamorous glass. Even, there are few fortune tellers and beggars near the temple.
Only the endless trucks passing by on the Golden Hibiscus Avenue in the north of the city are frequent. Jinhua Temple is only 100 meters away from the popular greenway around the city, and few people know about it. The car rode from the greenway, and it was ridden.
If you really want to go into the temple to hunt for treasures, you have heard about itThere are old frescoes inside the temple. A temple that is not very famous, but it is still rare to preserve the old murals, no matter how you look at it, it is destined to be not simple.
In Chengdu, only temples such as the Guanyin Temple in Xinjin and the Longzang Temple in Xindu still have stunning murals. The age of its murals can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. Guanyin Temple and Longzang Temple have long been national security units. Jinhua Temple is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit.
The good things of Jinhua Temple are not just murals, from entering the door through an ancient stage, discovering the signature room, walking back and forth in the clean temple several times, the small and chic atmosphere makes people regret not coming early.
What's going on?
There is also an ancient theater in the temple
A few hundred meters away from the platform, Jinhua Temple is quietly located in the corner of the Golden Hibiscus Avenue and the greenway around the city, next to the newly created one-leaf Zen forest.
In the legendary land of Tianhui Town, Jinhua Temple has actually existed for more than a thousand years. It was built in the Tang Dynasty, according to folk legend, Tang Xuanzong fled west because of the Anshi Rebellion, and lived in Jinhua Temple on the first day of Chengdu.
The Jinhua Temple of the Tang Dynasty has long been destroyed in the war in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the pattern seen now is that the monks began to rebuild and expand in the winter of the 42nd year of Qianlong (1778) after the monks went around to raise funds.
As soon as you step into the temple, an ancient building supported by more than a dozen stone pillars is quite amazing. There's one hidden hereChengdu's largest, best-preserved, and most exquisite temple ancient theater building.
The ancient building is called Letai, which was built in the Qing Daoguang period. Replacing the mountain gate with a music platform, at least in the temples of Chengdu, I have never seen such an arrangement, and it is very rare to be the only one.
In traditional temples, there is a tall mountain gate at the entrance, and the statue of Vajrayogini is enshrined inside. The music platform of Jinhua Temple is not dedicated to any godsAt first glance, it looks stingy, and the upper beam of the door is almost close to the top of the head. Approaching, but very attractive.
The ancient plaque of Jinhua Temple hangs high, the stone lion is majestic and solemn, and several pots of camellia are fresh and refined. Three doors in front of,Each door is equipped with a stone drum in front of itIt is placed on a base made of large bluestone.
The natural formation of stone slurry is an old thing at a glance. The drum surface is decorated with delicate and intricate relief patterns. Or two dragons playing with pearls, or phoenixes flying, or, some auspicious floral patterns.
Looking up, the roof beast carved from bricks has different postures, cute and majestic. It is said that the whole music platform belongs to the Qing Dynasty imitation of the Ming Dynasty building, and there is also the style of the ancient Shu Ganlan building remains.
Compared with other temples and other magnificent halls and other buildings, Jinhua Temple is much more simple and elegant. Passing through the door of the bandstage, the interior of the temple is slightly open.
The music platform and the hexagonal pavilion dedicated to Maitreya Buddha are opposite, and the bell tower and drum tower built later are on both sides. In the patio, the details of the orchestra will be seen more realistically. The theater is hanging high in the middle"Looking at the present and learning from the past" plaque,Several couplets are hung high.
There are stone inscriptions on both sides of the bandstand. In order to build this orchestra platform, it cost as much as 1477 taels of silver. And the role of the orchestra is to act on it to the gods**.
At that time, the people were very fond of Sichuan opera. It's for the gods to see, but it's actually for people to see, the so-called "rewarding the gods and entertaining people". A temple is popular because of Sichuan opera, and people will naturally visit the gods by the way.
Qing Dynasty murals are still there
It's a pity that the Tang Dynasty made a magnificent masterpiece
The music platform of Jinhua Temple is a well-preserved old building. In addition to this, quite compact temple house, also arrangedHexagonal Pavilion, Guanyin Palace, Daxiong Treasure Palace, Dharma Palace, and monks' houses and other multi-space buildingsEverything is in order.
Even though it was a weekend with good weather, there were still few believers or tourists, and there were not many monks in the templeYou can feel the simplicity and sincerity of this temple even more relaxed.
Whenever someone enters the temple to offer incense, they will prepare in advance and ring the bell. Frequent pilgrims will affectionately recognize the cats and dogs in the temple. They enjoy the warm winter sun in the open.
After the incense is applied in turn,Then go to the side hall next to the Guanyin Hall to ask for a sign is the complete process of coming to Jinhua Temple. All kinds of signatures are hung in a corner of the narrow room, "Just looking at it doesn't work, you ask for it, what you ask for is what you get." * said, "Whatever fate is." ”
Eventually,On one side of the corridor of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, a mural of Jinhua Temple appears. This mural from the Qing Dynasty is relatively well preserved and has the same sense of simplicity as the temple. You can get up close and unobstructed**.
The murals of the Qing Dynasty themselves are influenced by Western painting art to a certain extent, and they have a more realistic aspect. The scene depicted in the mural seems to be the Tang King receiving Xuanzang,The civil officials recorded the scene at the desk, and the palace maids were clear-eyed and thoughtful.
Although it is not as impressive as the murals of Guanyin Temple, the murals of Jinhua Temple, the treatment of the details of the characters' demeanor and the layered picture are still quite attractive. It is a kind of luck to see the murals that have been passed through the past 100 years.
Is there a mural in Jinhua Temple?Yes. It's just during the Tang Dynasty. The painter Zhang Nanben once painted a group of "Eight Ming Kings" on the main hall of Jinhua Temple. The most legendary is the fire in the mural.
According to legend, a monk who traveled from the Western Regions to Jinhua Temple was about to go to the temple and bow down, mistakenly thinking that the fire in the mural was the real fire, and in a panic, he was almost frightened and fell to the ground.
The story is a testament to the artist's skill. Many people may not be familiar with Zhang Nanben, who was destined to paint in Jinhua Temple because he entered Shu with Tang Xizong.
A few years later, Zhang Nanben was invited by Chen Jingxuan, the envoy of the Xichuan Festival, to go out of the West Gate of Chengdu and out of Wanli BridgeBaoli TemplePainting at the Water and Land Festival. He is a land and water painter with an accurate record in the history of painting
In Huang Xiufu's "Yizhou Famous Paintings", Zhang Nanben's water and land paintings are recorded
After the Emperor drove back, the lord of the house, Chen Taishi, set up a water and land courtyard in Baoli Temple, and asked Nanben to draw the gods and goddesses, the three officials and the five emperors, the thunder princess, the blasphemy immortals, and the emperors since ancient times. There are more than 120 frames of the temples in Shuzhong, thousands of strange things, gods, ghosts, dragons and beasts, ghosts and ghosts, intricately mixed in the meantime, and it is called a big stroke.
Taurus Fangzhi said that as an important religious painting, water and land painting and Dunhuang murals have a certain inheritance relationship, also known as "mobile Dunhuang murals".
It's a pity that due to the war, Zhang Nanben's lifelike "fake fire" and other masterpieces left in Chengdu were finally swallowed up by real fire.
Some temples are gone, like the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple in Chengdu, you can only feel its former beauty by going to the Sichuan Museum to see those exquisite Buddha head statues that have seen the light of day.
Fortunately, Jinhua Temple is still on the original site, and there are still old buildings, which can still be restored and grown, in a low-key and clean way. Plants and trees grow naturally hereNowadays, it is difficult to see hollyhocks as a traditional plant in temples.
In the small patio in front of the Daxiong Hall and the Bodhidharma Patriarch PalacePodocarpus and papaya trees grow for more than 100 yearsQuaint and energetic. The monks collected the fruit of the papaya and slice it to dry for its use.
The Chinese New Year is not approachingThe two magnolia trees in the temple also began to bear flower bones. It's a little pink, with a hint of purple. Over time, the leaves will fall and the flowers will bloom all over the tree, ** say, "Beautiful as an umbrella." ”
Just like this, day after day, year after year, cycle after cycle, Jinhua Temple, which is in a corner of peace, rings the reverberating bell every moment in Tianhui Town, and people who are destined will naturally find it.